Joe Biden and Bernie Sanders’s newly unveiled “Unity Task Forces” feature several progressives, including AOC . Will it be enough to bridge the gap?
unveiled six Unity Task Forces and dozens of members who will sit on the panels, which will each tackle a different issue: climate, criminal justice reform, the economy, education, health care, and immigration. As Bloomberg, each task force will have eight members—evenly divided between Biden and Sanders appointees—and will meet before the Democratic National Convention in August to make recommendations to the platform committee and to Biden.
The policy groups, which Biden and Sanders announced their intent to form when the latter dropped out of the Democratic primary, will address concerns on the left for Biden, ideally making skeptical Democrats more open to voting for the party’s presumptive nominee. As my colleaguelast month after Sanders endorsed Biden, progressives have expressed concern that “Biden’s early entreaties to the movement won’t result in real change.
Of particular concern to those on the left is the gap between Sanders and Biden on health care, especially as the coronavirus continues to cripple the country, knocking an estimatedoff their health-insurance plans. Speaking to Tracy, a senior progressive Hill staffer accused party moderates of having “zero recognition” of “the current relationship between employer-based health care and the way that this could be stripped from you immediately.
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